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What are some movies with notable director's commentary? (leminal.space)
submitted 2 years ago* by to c/movies@lemmy.world
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Notable can mean many things. Maybe it was high quality, insightful, and provided context for a more artistic scene. Maybe they teased a cut scene that would have radically shifted the tone of the movie. Maybe it was funny. Maybe the director absolutely hated what they produced and is only providing narration because of a contractual obligation and a lot of alcohol.

I am looking to hear about anything that stuck with you in some way.

A lot of people consume content online where director's commentary frequently isn't present but I imagine there are still a lot of people who are into this niche.

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[–] 14 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (2 children)

A lot of people consume content online where director's commentary frequently isn't present but I imagine there are still a lot of people who are into this niche.

This and deleted scenes are IMO the biggest loss with the shift to streaming.

I had the original run of Futurama on DVD and the commentaries were always interesting but there is no way I'm going to start hording physical media again.

The crazy thing is that its really just another audio track, from a technical perspective it would be at trivial to add to video stream but there must be additional licensing and they don't seem to feel its worth the effort/cost.

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  • [–] 3 points 2 years ago

    So I collect physical media, and I carefully preserve the audio commentaries and the special features. What I've found is that a lot of the special features that are worth keeping are available on youtube. You just have to know about them to find them. For example, the recent Mission Impossible movie had the famous motorcycle jump featurette on youtube, and some of the great John Wick featurettes are on youtube as well. But after buying and cataloging over 1200 movies, I have to say -- a lot of the special features just aren't worthwhile to me to keep. I think this is more of a reflection of the major studios not wanting to spend money on the special features than anything else. You seem to only get good special features on really big movies or movies made before 2010.

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